Do You Even Watch The Games?: A Clearinghouse For All [Advanced] Statistics

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Do You Even Watch The Games?: A Clearinghouse For All [Advanced] Statistics

Stats are a big portion of debate here, and after some thought I felt like creating this thread to cover the spread. There are tons of numbers used on here, and it is great to have good resources to back up a perspective or argument. I use them all the time here and elsewhere and I thought it would be great to compile them all based on category. If I missed any, feel free to add it by following the template I am using below.

Standard Player Stats

1) NHL.com: The standard that everyone knows. Features all the usual stats, and the advanced stats.

2) The Hockey News: Good for individual player reports through the use of the forecaster tool.

3) Hockey-Reference: A great resource that has a ton of information, and allows you to run queries. If you want to know how many goalies have ever won 40 games, recorded a GAA under 2.00 and above a .930 save percentage in the same season, this is the site for you.

4) HockeyDB: Another database with quality information, but not great for a query bases search. It contains a number of interesting lists, attendance information and other related info.

5) QuantHockey: Another solid database of knowledge that contains interesting stats sorted by nationality, player status and other parameters.
Prospect Stats

1) Elite Prospects: Expansive listing of information on prospects and players at almost every level of hockey.

2) Future Considerations: Great resource for draft prospects, and it includes reports on most players from scouts, rankings, draft profiles and updates lists.

3) My NHL Draft: Known for mock drafts, but it includes prospect profiles, scouting reports and tons of information on current and past drafts.

4) Hockey’s Future: Decent site with good overall listing of team prospects. Evaluations aren’t always the most spot on.

Advanced Stats

1) War-on-Ice:The best attempt at recreating Extra Skater. It contains usage charts, charts on shots and where they are located, info on where goalies are most vulnerable, where forwards suppress/allow shots from etc. If you have free time and feel like diving through data, this is a place you can have some fun. They also just added a new tool which allows you to find player comparables based on a number of fields. Cap Geek used to have this for contracts, and that may be coming as the boys at WOI are also building a worthy tribute to Cap Geek with a number of programmers. But here is the new tool I just mentioned. http://war-on-ice.com/similarity-scores.html

2) Puckalytics: A newer version and a better GUI than stats.hockeyanalysis.com. This site has a tool called SUPERWOWY. It stands for with/without so basically how Player X is with Player Y. You can load up to 6 players a side, and you can also add opponents. So if you wanted to see how line 1 has matched up against line 2 in matchups since the start of the 2007-08 season you can. This is another fun tool that can help you learn some of the stats, or just see how well certain players have played.I have found by playing around with these tools I have gotten a better understanding. It helps to look at some of the better players in the league and see their charts first and then dial it back so you have a point of comparison. Obviously it is easy to get inundated with numbers, so the multiple view options certainly help.

3) Sporting Charts: Visualization tool that creates heat maps of shots. Can set parameters and filter as needed.

4) Puck on Net: Team Advanced Stats which can be sorted by range of dates.

I really like this mostly because I don't understand a lot of the graphs and all shown. I know it's for proving a point and using stats to show what you mean. I completely agree with supporting your argument but now that I know where to look to find out what certain stats or symbols mean I can better decipher a chart or graph and come up with my own opinion based on that stats shown. Thank you!

I really like this mostly because I don't understand a lot of the graphs and all shown. I know it's for proving a point and using stats to show what you mean. I completely agree with supporting your argument but now that I know where to look to find out what certain stats or symbols mean I can better decipher a chart or graph and come up with my own opinion based on that stats shown. Thank you!

Well, to be fair, people should still be using these graphs as supplements and explaining how their point relates to them, not just posting them and saying "see?"

Because no, I don't. Analytics are not common place yet, so it's naïve, and borderline pretentious, to assume people just "get it".

"Rick Nash is not very good.

<chart showing Nash sucks>

As the chart shows, Nash couldn't score with a fist full of fifties in a five-dollar whore house."

General Fanager is really nice and well laid out, some bugs, but it's the closest thing I've seen to CapGeek so far. They also have the status of each team's draft picks, which is something I would be hard pressed to find in the past.

General Fanager is really nice and well laid out, some bugs, but it's the closest thing I've seen to CapGeek so far. They also have the status of each team's draft picks, which is something I would be hard pressed to find in the past.

Not bad. Lots of UX fixes to be done, but they've got the general principle down pat, and the actual design layout is nice. Much calmer and easier to deal with than most of the faux CapGeek sites that kind of rose up coming out of CapGeek's shut down.

Don't wanna turn this into a web design etiquette thing, but simple things like understanding how to use cell background colors to differentiate columns and cells is critical.

General Fanager is really nice and well laid out, some bugs, but it's the closest thing I've seen to CapGeek so far. They also have the status of each team's draft picks, which is something I would be hard pressed to find in the past.

It launched yesterday I believe. I saw it on Twitter and said man this could be nice.

Hidden Content“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”- Malcolm Gladwell

For the regular season, http://www.sportsclubstats.com/NHL.html is a lot of fun. It'll tell you who to root for to maximize our odds to make the playoffs, probability of seeding, probability of post-season opponent in Round 1, and if your team is going to miss the playoffs, probability of that seeding and who you want to win in order to get a better pick.

General Fanager is really nice and well laid out, some bugs, but it's the closest thing I've seen to CapGeek so far. They also have the status of each team's draft picks, which is something I would be hard pressed to find in the past.

Mirtle tweeted this out yesterday so I took a look. They didn't have Talbot under contract then. They do now, so they are at least very responsive when they have issues, but their cap data is also suspect until we see through repeated use that their numbers are correct. A good start though. Hopefully their tools will be good.

The draft pick stuff is good. I didn't realize our 1st next year in the Yandle deal was lottery protected.

Edit: They also have Conor Allen and Jason Missiaen as a UFA (IV) where is NHLnumbers.com has him as an RFA.

Last edited by AmericanJesus; 05-06-2015 at 08:38 AM.

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